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Old 13-05-2008, 19:53   #5
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Re: BBC Radio iPlayer

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Originally Posted by ronald146m View Post
Hi
I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 and Firefox with plugins same as you (probably).
It takes over 1 minute for the sound to feed through, but it seems like much longer.
You can tell that it's on the way and the cache is filling by looking at Ubuntu's System Monitor (Network History). When you click on the link the 'Received' trace rises to around 8KB/s.

These days to listen to or download the BBC radio programmes I use Beebotron website.
To listen to a show 'right click and copy' the Beebotron link then from command line use:-
Code:
mplayer <link>
So for that Mary Anne Hobbs show the command is:-
Code:
mplayer rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/hobbs.ra
This is Beebotron:-http://beebotron.timeforabrew.com/

If you prefer, you can use Real Player instead (I don't), like this:-
Code:
realplay rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/hobbs.ra
Nice tip! Much quicker...
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